The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-04-14
The Right Of the French Chambers has

| Issued q protest against the exclusion of
\ thatppaTty from representation in the Bud
get Committed. The charge Is made that
members of the Right are excluded from
the commtteeEbccause the Republicans are
desirous of concealing the fact that they
have been squandering national moneys.
| Nine. Bernhardt recently entertained the
humOrlSt Marshall Wilder, at lunch. She
| is five feet six inches high and about six
| inches wide, and he is about two feet wide
and three feet high. They talked French
| and English to each others entire bcwilder-
ment, but they ate in the same language
and parted friends. 1t is even said that
Mr.. Wilder made Nine. Bcrnhardt laugh.
John Most, eX- convict and apostle of an
| archy. had reception in Cooper Union,
New York. 1t was the largest Anarchist
meeting ever held in that city, the hall
being packed. The majority present were
not Anarchists, but Socialists, and many
were there merely out Of curiosity. A large
squad of police, i'll citizens clothes, were
present.
MIR. Pulitzer pronounces the story that
he has employed Il detective TO act rs a BODY
guard, IAN invention of my friend Mr.
Dana" He further says: "If Ira Shaefer
| means to do the threatened killing trust
that he will matcrialzc soon, as am con-
not care 20 have open and unsettled ac-
| counts"
Places of worlmen at Jones e. Laugh
Inns iron mill, Pittsburg, Pa, who struck
| Il lew days ago, have been filled by new
| men. The locked out workmen made ap-
plic0Cons to be organized into an assembly
| OF knights of Labor but were refused on
account OF being on strike. They de-
manded an advance i'll wages from 81 35 to
| 81 90 per day.
Colonel w. H. Martin, who will succeed
Scnator-clect Reagan in the House, is as tall
and thin as a rail. He wears long hair and
| has tnit on his chin, and a mustache.
Ills voice is loud and his gestures are awk-
| ward. Ills trousers never fit him and he
wears a buttcrnut- colored shirt. He has
lived all his life in the pinewoods of eastern
| leNnS ana has promised to be the same Bill
Martin i'll Washington that he is at home.
| The recent attacks on the Gar of RUSSIA
have caused that potcntate to hate every
| thing III the shape Of democracy. He has
| replied 20 the French Ambassadors invita-
ton to join in the French Exhibition of
| l6S9, declining to give encouragement to q
| demonstration organized in honor of n suc-
ccSsiul revolution, and adding that he
would not allow his subjects to take any
| part i'll such an affair either
Peter r. Morrisscy, cx-mem6cr of the
| lower house of the Municipal Assembly of
! St. Louis, and one of the Judges of cleo
| ton in that city last November, who has
been on trial before the United States Cir
| cult Court for three days past for fraudu-
| lcnt'y registering voters and with receiving
| Illegal votes while acting as judge of cleo
| tton, was found guilty of the latter charge
| In Wayne Mich, Circuit Court Judge
| J"uniSOn gave his decision on the contest
o. the viii OF The late Francis Palms be-
| Qucathing 81, 600, 900 to his two children
| 10 bc held by them iu trust for their chill
d"cn. The friendly contest was begun to
| secure legal decision on the will. In his
| 'I"ciSi0n Judge JcnnisOn holds that the
statutes are against controlling fortunes
| irnm the grave from generation TO genera
| ton.
The coal miners in the Jellico region of
| Kentucky have gone out on Il strike, and
AS 4 consequence kcnSce, W0udridgc,
East Tennessee, Standard and other mines
| arc shut down, with no prospect of open
ing up ior aoinc months. There are about
| 100 men employed in the mines The
cause OF the silkc is the refusal uron the
| part ot the men to sign Il yearly contract
| requiring tEcm to agree not to strike for
| Ouc year.
! The origin Of the expression "mcnding
| MS fences. as used in modern politics. is
! attributed 20 Johu Sherman. While Sccrc-
'',";' OF lhc Treasury he visited his home at
| Nl3>licld and was followed by host of
| correspondents, one Of whom boldly asked
| ldC Secretary what he was doing in Mans
ijri'. IT. happened that on that day Sher-
h#N had contracted with man to repair
some fences Oh his place, so he told the re-
| porter tEH. he hud come TO Mansfield to
i"ui: after his fences. Thus originated an
| expression which has had wide use in pOlit-
.r;I circles and has even found its way into
| iitr British House Of Parliament
The late John Roach loved to tell that it
"aa through his connection with the Navy
| department OF the government that he be.
| came 50 widely known. lie used to take
| pleasure i'll rcCounting his first interview
| Wlth President Lincoln, which was also
the beginning of his labors for the govern.
mcnt When Roach brought q letter of in
| PRODUCTION, Mr.. Lincoln inquired: "NVhat
40 you want?' Nothing" answered Mr..
Roach: "but | thought you might want
$omcthing of me" $50 | d." replied the
PRESIDENT. And if you have brains
CROUCH 10 build engines that will make
snip go last enough to catch up with those
| NOcl Now-y -you-havc- him -and-now-you-
donts that are cuttingO our merchant vessels
INTO chips you can 90 homo and make me
three pairs Of them"